Clamp



Reissued July 26, 1927.

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enema i Original No. 1,615,092, dated January is, 1927, Serial no. 46540, fi1ed Ju1y'29; 1925. a lication in reissue filed June 14, 1927. Serial No. 198,856.

This invention relates to improvements in nlamps, the general object being to securely clamp and rigidly secure a stub pole tothe ordinary type of telegraph or telephone pole when the latter has been materially deteriorated at its base and is likely to fall.

Another object of the invention resides in the peculiar construction of my clamp per se in the provision of a saddle secured to and interposed between the corresponding inner sides of the stub and pole and adapted to have securely connected to the opposite ends thereof, clamping bands encircling the outer sides of the stub and pole whereby the stub and pole are spaced and held rigidly in their verticallydisposed positions and against accidental displacement.

\Vith the above and other objects in view, the invention further includes the following novel features and details of construction, to be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawing and pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawing:

Figure 1 is a fragmentary elevation of a stub and pole showing my present invention applied thereto.

Figure 2 1s a transverse sect on taken on line 2-2 of Figure 1. v

Figure 3 is a vertical sectional view taken on line 3-3 of Figure 1 through one of the saddles and clamping bands.

Referring'to the drawing in detail, wherein like characters of reference denote corre spending parts, the reference characters 10 and 11 indicate respectively a telegraph pole and stub therefor, said stub being used for strengthening and supporting the pole 10 when the said pole has been materially deteriorated at its base through rot and the like, the above is the means now utilized in strengthening weakened telegraph poles and forms no part of the present application for Letters Patent but is merely shown for the purpose of illustration in bringing forward the novel advantages of the above entitled invention. a l

--The invention resides in the provision of saddles formed of arcuate shaped guide plates 12 and arcuate shaped end plates 13; having their ends arranged in overlapping relation and receiving fastening elements 14 in the form of screws or the like which have their threaded portions embedded within the corresponding sides of the pole 10 and stub 11 in the manner clearly illustrated in Figure 2 of the drawing. It will thus be noted that these arcuate shaped side plates 12 conform to the curvature of the outer side walls of the pole 10 and stub 11 in order that the same may snugly lie thereagainst while the side arcuate shaped end plates 13 hold the arcuate side plates 12 apart and against the corresponding side of the pole l0 and stub 11.

In order to further provide means for strengthening and supporting the said pole 10, I provide bands 15 which are wrapped around the said pole 10 and stub 11 in ali nment with the said saddles thus arranged etween the said pole l0 and stub 11 and having openings 16 arranged at intermediate points of their lengths while their over-lapping ends include registering openings 17 therein whereby a bolt as indicated at 18 may be readily and'easily inserted within any one of the openings 16 and extend centrally and longitudinally through the semicircular end plates 13 while threaded end portions protrude through the registering openings 17 and receive a securing element in the form of a nut 19 thereon and when being screwed home will bend the said bands 15 inwardly at their intermediate points adj acent the outer side of the semi-circular end plates '13, as clearly illustrated in Figure 2 of the drawing, whereby the said bands 15 will rigidly engage the said pole 10 and stub 11 when holding the same against accidental displacement from the said saddles, as illustrated. Y

It will thus be noted from the foregoing description and accompanying drawing that this invention provides an exceedingly useful and advantageous clamp for use upon poles and the like, although I have shown my invention as applied to a telegraph pole and stub therefor in strengthening the same after its base has been materially deteriov A clamp device for connecting two poles 110 together, comprising a saddle member dethe poles to thereby provide means whereby signed to be inserted between two pole memthe band may be tightened and the saddle, hers and to substantially conform to the conband and both pole members held in their 10 tour of the adjacent sides of both pole Inemrelative positions.

5 hers, a band for encircling'both poles, and 9. Des Moines, Iowa, May 26, 1927.

bolt passed through both sides of the band i and also passed through the saddle between HARRY R. LON GANEOKER. 

